I'm 20 years old from Canada. I just finished my degree
in telecom. My interest for robots started at the age of
5 when I saw the movie Short-Circuit. I built my first
robot at the age of 13. As a final project
at the end of my studies I built a stair
climbing robot based on Irobot's Packbot. I have a very
wide knowledge of electronics; SONET, ATM, microwave
carriers, antennas, radio waves propagation, any type of
analog & digital modulation & transmission, programming
(assembly,CUPL, C++), schematics & PCB design, networks &
protocols, cable distribution systems & transmission
lines, audio & video
systems ...... just to name a few things.
PICTURES
of the Escarob stair climbing robot
VIDEOS of the Escarob stair
climbing robot
Any questions, you can
contact me
fbrodeur@gmail.com

Now that the 2006 fall
semester
has
started
and
everybody
got back to work, I finally received the videos we took
of my stair climbing robot. The robot was not R/C when we
shot those videos, that is why you can see a RJ45 cable
between the joystick and the robot.

The first one shows my robot on plaine
surface,
the
second
one shows it's stair climbing capability and the third one
shows the robot climbing on PCs

I am now adding a pan/tilt IR
camera
to
the
robot
with
2.4Ghz transmitter and receiver, a GPS, inclinometers and
proximity sensors. I already
started working on the second generation which should be
a bit smaller and half the weight of the first one
(140lbs).

One of the next steps will be
to
make
it
semi-
autonomous
and then Fully autonomous but that will have to wait
considering the amount of hours I'll have to spend on
programming (assembly) because of security issues due to
the weight and speed (6kph) of the robot.